Civilization: Beyond Earth Fullscreen 1920×1080 (1080p) not working

Well, I was waiting with bated breath for the new Civilization: Beyond Earth; I downloaded it at midnight, and I can’t play it (except in Windowed mode, which is distracting as all hell and which I will not do on principle) in the standard 1920 by 1080 pixel resolution (“1080p”, but us computer geeks know it better as the simple 1920×1080 standard resolution). Apparently, during all their testing over at 2k and Firaxis and whatever, no one ever bothered to try to run the game at that resolution on a 144 hz monitor. You got it, that’s the issue (144 hz), according to this link:

I love the Civ games but this is really beyond the pale in terms of a pathetic glitch that got through. 144 hz machines are standard for a lot of gamers, including myself (I was just zipping around the net and noted two people looking forward to playing Civ: BE at 144 hz, before the launch tonight), and now we can’t run the game in the standard computing resolution almost everyone uses — without running it in Windowed mode. Until we get a patch. In my humble opinion, the patch should have been out about an hour or two after release. *grumble*

Sorry I took so long to approve your comment. 🙂 Yeah, I know what you mean. Playing in Windowed mode also takes you hugely out of immersion, too. I think I’ve played one full game of BE. And it’s, what, 3 weeks later and they STILL don’t have a patch out for it? Ridiculous. What was QA doing? Making sure things look fuzzy when you’re not centered on the action? WTF?

This was all tried before the update. None of it worked. Changing my monitor to a 60 Hz refresh rate, in Steam *and* in system settings, did nothing. If you have a 144 Hz monitor, you cannot play fullscreen — until the patch came out, now you can. It was an admitted issue; I showed you the links. Changing the refresh rate did not do anything to get it out of Windowed mode.